<p><a href="http://zrecs.blogspot.com/"></a><a href="/CS/photos/feb2007/picture5298.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="/CS/photos/feb2007/images/5298/195x244.aspx" align="right" border="0" height="175" hspace="4"></a>Z Recommends has a <a href="http://zrecs.blogspot.com/2007/01/parents-first-bloggers-second.html">thoughtful post</a> about <a href="http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/personalessays/carver/ironicthing/index.aspx">Lisa Carver's review</a> of Neil Pollack's <i>Alternadad&nbsp; </i>(you can read <a href="http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/personalessays/pollack/ironicthing2/">Neil's response here)</a>,
in which he points out that blogs with edgy, cynical, ironic takes on
parenting seem to dominate the mommy and daddy blogosphere.&nbsp; Reading
the sniping comments on the Pollack and Carver pieces, you'd have to
conclude that parents today -- at least those who are blogging and
commenting -- are a bunch of angry, labeling, cliquish malcontents.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The labels thrown around with the most vitriol seem to be those associated with the likes of<i> Babble</i>,
including "hipster," "grup," and "trendy."&nbsp; Some of those labels are
well-deserved, but as with all labels they tend to over-generalize and
foreshorten real dialogue and debate.</p>
<p><a href="/CS/photos/feb2007/picture5298.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="/CS/photos/feb2007/images/5298/195x244.aspx" align="right" border="0" height="175" hspace="4"></a>Z Recommends has a <a href="http://zrecs.blogspot.com/2007/01/parents-first-bloggers-second.html">thoughtful post</a> about <a href="http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/personalessays/carver/ironicthing/index.aspx">Lisa Carver's review</a> of Neal Pollack's <i>Alternadad&nbsp; </i>(you can read <a href="http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/personalessays/pollack/ironicthing2/">Neal's response here)</a>,